Fastener



Patented Dec. 30, 1924.

PATENT GFFICE.

CARL E. ZETLITZ, 0F CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

FASTENER.

Application led June 4,

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, 4CARL E. ZETLTTZ, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fasteners, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to collar clips. The object of the invention is to provide an improved clip for securing a' collar so that it will not slip over the shirt band and which will space the inner and outer portions ot the collar from one another, so that a tie may be easily adjusted through the collar.

The invention consists in the several novel features hereinafter set forth and more particularly defined by claim at the conclusion hereof.

In the drawings: Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a device embodying the invention, a portion of a shirt and a collar being shown in section. Fig. 2 is a perspective of the improved clip. Fig. 3 is a section taken on line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

The improved clip is formed of a strip of metal bent to form a downwardly extending inner member 4, an intermediate member 5 and an outer member 6. Members 4 and 5 are adapted to it against and engage the inner and outer surfaces of the band 7 of a shirt 8. The looped connecting portion 9 between members 4 and 5 extend over and around the upper margin of the band 7, so that said members will be pressed together to clamp the shirt band between them. The outer member 6 is connected to the intermediate member 5 by a loop 1() which is resilient and will press the outer member towards the intermediate member 5, so that the band or inner portion 11 ot a collar 12 will he clamped. between the intermediate member 5 and the outer member 6. The outer -meniber 6 is curved transversely, as at 13, and has its upper end 14 extended to space the collar 12 from the band 11 so that a neck- 1921. Serial N0. 475,059.

tie between the band 11 and collar 12 will not be gripped in the collar and may be easily adjusted and slipped through the collar in forming the tie.

The invention exemplifies a clip which is Jformed of a single piece of metal and which is provided with members for gripping the collar and shirt bands so that the collar will not slip over the shirt band or the shirt band from working out under the collar. Also a clip which secures the collar on the shirt and spaces the collar band from the collar to prevent the neck-tie from being pinched in the collar.

The invention is not to be understood as restricted to the detail set forth, since these may be modified within. the scope of the appended claim, without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

As a new article of manufacture, a collar clip comprising inner and intermediate members resiliently connected at their upper ends and adapted to receive and grip a shirt band between them, and an outer member of a substantially greater length than the intermediate and inner member connected to the lower end of the inner member by an eXn pandedloop and adapted with the intermediate member to rcsilientlygrip the collar band, and having its outer face convexly curved transversely to facilitate the slipping of a necktie in the collar and having the inner face of its upper end flared out- Wardly to hold the collar in spaced relation to the collar band so as to facilitate the entrance of the collar band between the intermediate and outer members, said inner member having its free end extended and curved adjacent the expanded loop to conform thereto so as to prevent the shirt band from slippinfr when engaged by the inner and intermediate members.

. CARL E. ZETLITZ. 

